OnePlus 8 and OnePlus Pro 8 debuted to mixed reactions. Even OnePlus has a pretty mixed reputation for updating all but the two newest phones, usually returning once every couple of months with a recent security patch in tow. The company pushed out new software to several of its legacy devices last week, and it is now back to give some attention to the OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro, and OnePlus 8T. (Photo : GettlyImages/ Sean Gallup)OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro update OnePlus 8 and OnePlus Pro 8 Update This latest version of OxygenOS is the first stable update…
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Two new massive ransomware attacks affected a big company and a government agency. Security experts confirmed that one of them totally breached the entire computer system of Belgium’s internal ministry. (Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)People in the audience are illuminated by the screens of their laptop computers during the Sony press conference on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 4, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. E3 is the most important yearly trade show the USD 78.5 billion videogame industry. On the other hand, another group targeted Volunteer Service Abroad, which is a giant international…
Clearview AI is being hit by lawsuits due to its questionable methods. The Privacy International, or PI, and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced on May 27 that they have filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. (Photo : Pixabay/geralt)Clearview AI technology Clearview AI Lawsuit The complaints filed in France, Greece, Austria, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company’s method of documenting and collecting data, including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites, violates European privacy laws. The New York-based Clearview AI claims to have created the largest known…
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hit back at his former adviser Dominic Cummings, who savaged his handling of the pandemic and declared he was not fit to lead the country.Speaking to broadcasters on a visit to a hospital, Johnson said some of the comments his controversial former aide made bore no relation to “reality.”Also Read | UK health minister should have been fired over Covid, says Johnson’s ex-adviserJohnson said he would not comment when questioned over Cummings’s assertion that he said he’d rather let the “bodies pile high” than order a third national lockdown.“I think it’s important for us to…
Britain’s health secretary Thursday denied lying to colleagues and the country over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, after a scathing broadside from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top adviser.The attack from Dominic Cummings — who also called Johnson “unfit for the job” — raised new questions about whether tens of thousands of people died needlessly because of government incompetence and dishonesty.Health Secretary Matt Hancock “should have been fired for at least 15, 20 things” after “lying to everybody on multiple occasions, in meeting after meeting in the cabinet room and publicly”, Cummings said in testimony to MPs.Hancock claimed in…
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, or CBA, will be rolling out a new feature that will allow its customers to see their account balances from other banks within its company app. The service is labelled by the bank as a CDR pilot. (Photo : Pixabay/AhmadArdity)CBA online banking Commonwealth Bank of Australia Account Balance Australia’s Consumer Data Right, or CDR, officially launched on July 1, 2020, with the first tranche, an open banking-lie regime requiring financial services providers to share a customers’ data when requested by the customer. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia stated on May 27 that the CDR pilot launched…
China firmly rejects Canberra’s attempts to intervene in the trial of detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, hours after the Australian envoy was denied entry inside a Beijing court where the author’s case was being heard.Graham Fletcher, the Australian ambassador to China, was stopped from entering the heavily-guarded Beijing No 2 Intermediate People’s Court as the court began hearing Yang’s case.The high profile trial of Yang, 56, an Australian-Chinese writer charged with espionage by China, started on Thursday, two years after he was picked up from an airport by Chinese authorities.A popular blogger, Yang had…
Instagram is now releasing some new features that will certainly benefit its users, specifically those who are using the popular social media platform to sell their products, and do other activities that will help them earn more money. (Photo : Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)A girl reacts as she tries an iPhone X at the Apple Omotesando store on November 3, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Apple launched the latest iPhone featuring face recognition technology, a large 5.8-inch edge-to-edge high resolution OLED display and better front and back cameras with optical image stabilisation today. The social media giant confirmed that its…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday that Israel’s deadly strikes on Gaza may constitute war crimes, and that the Hamas Islamist group had also violated international humanitarian law by firing rockets into Israel.Bachelet said her office had verified the deaths of 270 Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 68 children, during violence this month. Most were killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza, where Israel fought militants for 11 days, ending in a ceasefire.Hamas rockets had killed 10 Israelis and residents.She was addressing a special session of the UN Human Rights Council, held at…
Police and federal investigators sought on Thursday to determine why a Northern California transit employee opened fire on his co-workers, killing nine people in the latest mass shooting to haunt the United States.The accused gunman shot himself as police closed in on him, minutes after gunfire erupted at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific time at a light rail yard in the heart of Silicon Valley, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith.Police did not publicly name the gunman. The San Jose Mercury News and other news media identified him as Samuel Cassidy, 57, a maintenance worker at the yard.Firefighters responded…